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▀▀▀▄ ARTIST.......: G-Man ▄▀▀▀
▀▄▄ TITLE.......: IV ▄▄▀
▀█▄ SOURCE.....: Vinyl ▄█▀
▄█▀ STYLE......: Techno ▀█▄
▄▄█▀▀ LABEL.......: G Records ▀▀█▄▄
▄█▀▀ CAT.NR........: G-4 ▀▀█▄
▀ QUALITY.........: VBRkbps/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo ▀
▄▀ URL...............: www.swimhq.com ▀▄
▄ RIP.DATE...........: Oct-28-2005 ▄
█ LENGTH............: 38:16 min █
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██▓▓ Gez first came to prominence in 1990 as one ██▓▓
██▓▓ half (with Mark Bell) of ground breaking ██▓▓
██▓▓ Leeds based duo LFO. With a sound that ██▓▓
██▓▓ referenced early house, b.boy aesthetic ██▓▓
██▓▓ (they met as members of rival breakdance ██▓▓
██▓▓ crews), northern bleep & their own ██▓▓
██▓▓ distinctive sub-bass. ██▓▓
██▓▓ LFO not only had a considerable influence ██▓▓
██▓▓ over the developing electronic underground ██▓▓
██▓▓ (you'd be hard put to find anyone from the ██▓▓
██▓▓ genre who doesn't regard LFO as an ██▓▓
██▓▓ influence) but also enjoyed chart sucess, ██▓▓
██▓▓ their debut single (LFO) reaching no. 10 in ██▓▓
██▓▓ the national charts and earning them the ██▓▓
██▓▓ ultimate accolade of being described as "the ██▓▓
██▓▓ most annoying record (he'd) ever heard" by ██▓▓
██▓▓ Radio 1 DJ Simon Mayo! ██▓▓
██▓▓ I991 saw the duo touring throughout Europe ██▓▓
██▓▓ and putting together tracks for their debut ██▓▓
██▓▓ album "Frequencies" which was preceeded by ██▓▓
██▓▓ the "We are back" single. Later that year ██▓▓
██▓▓ they made their US debut at ██▓▓
██▓▓ the New Music Seminar & collaborated with ██▓▓
██▓▓ Karl Bartos (Kraftwerk) on some tracks which ██▓▓
██▓▓ due to record company wranglings never saw ██▓▓
██▓▓ the light of day in their intended form. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ██▓▓
██▓▓ By 1992-3 the duo had a considerable number ██▓▓
██▓▓ of gigs under their belts, including the ██▓▓
██▓▓ first large scale rave in Paris, and were ██▓▓
██▓▓ much in demand as remixers, having remixed ██▓▓
██▓▓ Africa Bambaata, Art of Noise & YMO and this ██▓▓
██▓▓ set a seal on their acceptance into the ██▓▓
██▓▓ historical tradition of electronic music. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Canadian DJ/Musician Richie Hawtin had been ██▓▓
██▓▓ considerably influenced by the duo and they ██▓▓
██▓▓ collaborated on a 12" (LFO v FUSE) ██▓▓
██▓▓ originally on the Warp "Quick One" imprint ██▓▓
██▓▓ later re-released on Hawtin's label Plus 8. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ██▓▓
██▓▓ By '94 the strains of a lot of touring were ██▓▓
██▓▓ beginning to show and they began to want to ██▓▓
██▓▓ spend more time at home. Recorded output ██▓▓
██▓▓ from the duo (disregarding the ██▓▓
██▓▓ collaborations) during this period had ██▓▓
██▓▓ consisted ██▓▓
██▓▓ only of 1 single (What is House) in 1992. ██▓▓
██▓▓ The pair's response was to start to work on ██▓▓
██▓▓ their own material, Mark Bell's "Speed Jack" ██▓▓
██▓▓ and "Gez's" G-Man both have ther roots in ██▓▓
██▓▓ this period and once the 2nd LFO album ██▓▓
██▓▓ "Advance", was released we saw the end of an ██▓▓
██▓▓ era. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ██▓▓
██▓▓ Gez's pre-disposition has always been for ██▓▓
██▓▓ live playing and for music which can move ██▓▓
██▓▓ the floor in a club setting. The developing ██▓▓
██▓▓ LFO situation was not at all conducive to ██▓▓
██▓▓ this approach and he began to realise that ██▓▓
██▓▓ only through a seperate project could he ██▓▓
██▓▓ actually do what he felt he should be doing. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Swim had approached LFO in early '95 to ██▓▓
██▓▓ remix Immersion (LFO had previously remixed ██▓▓
██▓▓ Wir so a contact existed) in the end both ██▓▓
██▓▓ Gez (as G-Man) and Mark (as Fawn) did ██▓▓
██▓▓ remixes. Gez also sent a speculative ██▓▓
██▓▓ cassette of other G-Man tracks at the time. ██▓▓
██▓▓ The opening track on the cassette was "Quo ██▓▓
██▓▓ Vardis" and the moment Colin & Malka heard ██▓▓
██▓▓ it they knew they could do something with ██▓▓
██▓▓ it. Over the following weeks a selection of ██▓▓
██▓▓ 4 tracks were chosen for what was to become ██▓▓
██▓▓ the (1st) G-Man EP. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ██▓▓
██▓▓ The record was picked up on very early by ██▓▓
██▓▓ the likes of Richie Hawtin, Claude Young, ██▓▓
██▓▓ Jeff Mills etc. and owed it's sucess at ██▓▓
██▓▓ least in part to the fact that both techno & ██▓▓
██▓▓ house DJ's played it. Swim followed it up ██▓▓
██▓▓ early the following year with the similarly ██▓▓
██▓▓ minimally credited G-Man II which acheived ██▓▓
██▓▓ even more success than it's predecessor. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Both 12's spawned tracks which even 3 or 4 ██▓▓
██▓▓ years later continued to be licensed to ██▓▓
██▓▓ countless compilations and be absolute ██▓▓
██▓▓ staples of all minimal DJ's everywhere, ██▓▓
██▓▓ Andrew Weatherhall, Sven Vath, Billy Nasty, ██▓▓
██▓▓ Daft Punk and countless others all spin ██▓▓
██▓▓ those g-tunes. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ██▓▓
██▓▓ The project developed organicly over the ██▓▓
██▓▓ year to 1996 where an album and live work ██▓▓
██▓▓ became part of a natural flow of events, ██▓▓
██▓▓ resulting in the summer of '96 with release ██▓▓
██▓▓ of the CD album Kushti which took a minimal ██▓▓
██▓▓ mix approach to the material as digitally ██▓▓
██▓▓ layered by Vapourspace/ Cusp man Mark Gage. ██▓▓
██▓▓ For those who prefer to "roll their own" ██▓▓
██▓▓ un-mixed tracks could be found on Kushti ██▓▓
██▓▓ Vinyl. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ██▓▓
██▓▓ '97 saw the branching out of the "g-style" ██▓▓
██▓▓ into it's own sub label in the Swim stable. ██▓▓
██▓▓ G1 featured Swiss producer DJ Fallovie, G2 ██▓▓
██▓▓ the super hip Japanese w-moon from the ██▓▓
██▓▓ Metrojuice crew, G3 features Leeds mega-lads ██▓▓
██▓▓ shoota and G4 the g-man himself. Gez has ██▓▓
██▓▓ also continued to mash up other peoples ██▓▓
██▓▓ tunes to keep his hand in. Recent remixes ██▓▓
██▓▓ include, Malka Spigel, DJ Fallovie, w-moon & ██▓▓
██▓▓ Vapourspace. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ██▓▓
██▓▓ It's been a long 2 years since the g-man ██▓▓
██▓▓ (aka Gez Varley) last graced us with one of ██▓▓
██▓▓ his eponymous release. In fact the g-label ██▓▓
██▓▓ has had to wait until number 4 before ██▓▓
██▓▓ getting a release from it's number one son! ██▓▓
██▓▓ Still Varley was never prolific in his early ██▓▓
██▓▓ days with techno innovators LFO and it's the ██▓▓
██▓▓ quality that counts - and what quality!! ██▓▓
██▓▓ G-man has been responsible for defining the ██▓▓
██▓▓ real soul of minimal techno by simply being ██▓▓
██▓▓ the one who "brought the funk". From ██▓▓
██▓▓ earliest days with the first g-man 12" on ██▓▓
██▓▓ g's sister label swim ~ g-man has always ██▓▓
██▓▓ been the favourite of the world biggest ██▓▓
██▓▓ floor movers (how does, Mills, Weatherall & ██▓▓
██▓▓ Hawtin grab you for starters?) From g-man II ██▓▓
██▓▓ came the minimal classic "El Jem" (soon to ██▓▓
██▓▓ be redefined by some freshly minted talent) ██▓▓
██▓▓ and the Kushti album in it's digital ██▓▓
██▓▓ sequencing by Vapourpace's Mark Gage to ██▓▓
██▓▓ mimic the layered floor presentation so ██▓▓
██▓▓ necessary to the medium is still light years ██▓▓
██▓▓ ahead of anything in techno. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ██▓▓
██▓▓ Yet despite his reputation for providing the ██▓▓
██▓▓ finest mixing gear g-man in it's pure state ██▓▓
██▓▓ remains peerless in it's sheer subtlety. The ██▓▓
██▓▓ new 12" provides ample opportunity to be ██▓▓
██▓▓ pulled into it's hynotic embrace. Always ██▓▓
██▓▓ understated the 12" encompasses almost ██▓▓
██▓▓ spacey mimimal techno The Art of War , Gez' ██▓▓
██▓▓ own take on skank Centurion, the most ██▓▓
██▓▓ minimal of dubs Brutus and the necessary ██▓▓
██▓▓ hard finaliser Nero. A definitive return. ██▓▓
██▓▓ The g-man is back to claim what's his. ██▓▓
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